Wednesday, November 26, 2008

CCK08-Connectivism: Networked Student...The Movie

As a grand finale for the Connectivism course, George asked participants to respond to the following questions:

What is the quality of my learning networks: diversity, depth, how connected am I?

How has this course influence my view of the process of learning (assuming, of course, that it has)?

What types of questions are still outstanding?

How can you incorporate connectivist principles in your design and delivery of learning?

Questions 2 and 4 are addressed in the video above. The presented scenario is definitely not a complete picture of connectivism. I think it's a good start for a k12 classroom. I view the work with my students as networked learning incubation.

I had great fun creating this video. My 15 year old son, Alex, helped with the artwork and voice over. My high school students are currently working on the project that is highlighted in the video. I owe a big thank you to Lee LeFever of CommonCraft. He kindly gave me permission to use the "Plain English" format for my project.I absolutely love the brilliant simplicity of his work.

I sincerely hope that other teachers will use the video to help colleagues, parents, and students understand the potential of networked learning.

On to questions 1 and 3...I managed a fairly robust learning network prior to taking the connectivism course. But, I believe I'm taking a more thoughtful approach as a result of this experience. I'm reaching out to those with whom I already have a professional relationship, building new contacts, and trying harder to seek out points of view that differ from mine. I hope that the visibility of CCK08 will facilitate more research and testing of Connectivism as a theory of learning. The biggest question in my mind is whether the theory is powerful enough to have a real impact on main stream education. I see a lot of potential obstacles, especially with younger children. I'm also contemplating the best strategy for strengthening network ties and developing deeper professional contacts for learning and sharing.

78 comments:

What a fabulous video and congrats on its production quality, and more so the message- I plan to use it for an upcoming presentation meant to help teachers appreciate and embrace how young people are learning these days.

This is a brilliant piece, Wendy. I hope to use it as part of a faculty learning community discussion we have started with our graduate school professors here in Monterey. We're exploring Don Finkel's ideas in 'teaching with your mouth shut.'

What an absolutely fabulous video! As the others have said, it's a brilliant overview of what we covered in the course that's really easy to understand. Thanks very much for sharing it on YouTube - I'll definitely be looking for ways to re-use the clip so others can benefit from the hard work you put into it.

Wendy, I know you've said "feel free to share, reuse" etc, but I can't find a license on the site, so I have to ask - would you be ok with someone doing a translation of the audio into Spanish but reusing the video? Sincerely, Scott Leslie

Wonderful video, Wendy! and Kudos Alex! I have a sense that the theory, with all the wonderful work being done in CCK08, will get exemplified in many ways in the near future, building a much stronger implementational case for connectivism. I would just hope that we are able to collate and reference all contributions effectively. - Viplav

Fabulous work Wendy and Alex. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I know I am going to find this a very useful teaching tool. I wrote a post about your efforts;http://jennylu.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/networked-student-wendy-drexler-has-helped-us-out/

You are a true example of the sharing nature of a connected world. Thank you both again.

Dear Wendy, the above link is for Your son Alex. I would like to add a special thank You to Alex for sharing his light and obvious love for people like me who seem to be living their life backwards. Alex, you remind me today that I am dealing with the Einstein generation in my classrooms.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein

I think the ability to communicate important concepts in a user-friendly and non-threatening way is the hallmark of a great educator. This absolutely hits the mark; I've already fowarded this to other educators who work with my kids. Thanks for knocking the connectivism concept out of the ballpark for the crowd!

When my sixth grade students return from Thanksgiving break on Monday, I have a project for them based on what I have been learning from CCK08-Connectivism. Thanks to Wendy and Alex, I now have a way to introduce the project! Thank you for showing me how to share the fun my students will have learning! Sincerely, Sarah

As all others have said, a wonderful video! But, I think the million dollar question remains. How do we get teachers, and the educational system as a whole, to embrace these tools, to see their validity and worth, so they can be the mentors you speak of in this video? As a collective institution, adoption is occurring at a snail's pace, and technology and idea dissemination will only continue to gain speed. This is what I really worry about.

Wendy, I ended up using this video as part of my talks last week in Colombia on 'Becoming a Network Learner' (cf. http://www.slideshare.net/sleslie/becoming-a-network-learner-presentation)

The talks were to Spanish speakers. We tried very hard to get the video translated into Spanish beforehand but simply ran out of time. But we are still trying to do this. If anyone is interested in assisting with this (or indeed translating it into any other language) Diego Leal has started the process at http://dotsub.com/view/41f08de7-68dc-4365-af4c-5733f565b9e1 He has done all of the transcription which should greatly assist any translations. Hope this is ok, this video is very very good in its clarity and simplicity, and we want people in other languages to be able to benefit from it as well. Sincerely, Scott Leslie

I just wanted (as everybody else) to congratulate you on the video and to say, as a follow-up of Scott's message, that the video has been translated into Spanish (subtitled, to be precise) on DotSub: http://dotsub.com/view/41f08de7-68dc-4365-af4c-5733f565b9e1

I'm willing to try and do a Portuguese translation, but it will be great to have more people on board translating to other languages.

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Indeed these are the skills that we middle aged student of business and internet are learning from sctrach. When I look back to my education my degrees did not in anyway prepared me for the 21st centery. The best part of connectivism is that you stay up to date all the time with the social networks and what is new in your area.

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TYhe fun video linked here could also be called 'Connectivism in Plain English'. Written by Wendy Drexler and drawn by Alex Drexler, the video tells the story of a student who creates his own learning network in the process of taking an online course. It's well done and well worth the few minutes it will take to watch.

The goal of this paper is to explore certain theories for our plans and actions in technology-enabled learning. Although presented as a successor to previous learning theories, connectivism alone is insufficient to inform learning and its support by technology in an internetworked world.

Five scenarios of change are presented with frameworks of different theories to explore the variety of approaches educators can take in the contexts for change and their associated research/evaluation.

I argue that the choice of which theories to use depends on the scope and purposes of the intervention, the funding available to resource the research/evaluation, and the experience and philosophical stances of the researchers/practitioners.

Those who struggle to create an adequate theory of learning must admit that the process is much like stumbling in the dark. So much of our thought structure is shaped by hidden assumptions evident in our existing learning and educational systems.

here are still significant discrepancies in Internet penetration rates, with North America, Europe, and Oceania/Australia having the highest penetration rates. The Middle East and Africa are enjoying the greatest growth rate in users based on figures from 2000–2008 (from a low base),

Asia already has the largest number of Internet users. Research on Internet use in the northern hemisphere and Australasia has demonstrated the educational and commercial opportunities associated with significant Internet penetration (although these can be overstated).

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